with Tom Izzo,Michigan State Head Basketball Coach;2000 NCAA National Champions, 3X National Coach of the Year

Learn special situations plays and strategies to help your team add 4-5 points a game-and win more close games!

Tom Izzo shares his coaching philosophy on special situations - or what he calls "special teams situations." Any dead ball situation is considered a special teams opportunity and his goal is to be aggressive and pick up 4-5 points a game in special teams play.

Use these plays and strategies to go after an opposing player who is in foul trouble, generate fouls against your opponent's best player and to get the shots you need late in the game.

Special teams involves:

Jump balls - See three plays to help you score on the first possession of the game.

Missed offensive free throws - Get the ball back after a missed free throw.

Baseline out-of-bounds - Five plays to attack from the baseline.

Sideline out-of-bounds - Four plays with multiple options.

Plays after time outs - Five set plays to neutralize heavy defensive pressure.

Izzo stresses three main goals when it comes to special teams play: Score points, have a specific purpose and have two options (inside and outside).

Izzo has used these effective plays and strategies to change his team from an NIT team to an NCAA tournament team and again from an NCAA qualifier to a team that makes a deep run in the tournament on annual basis.

Now you can use these same ideas to improve and advance your team this season.

It certainly gives you what you want, a ton of plays from all dead ball situations. There is some repeated material from other Izzo tapes (particularly Smorgasboard) but overall there is a lot of stuff that is different and the players are all solid. I'd take a look at it if you were searching for some good OB and dead ball plays.

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson September 27, 2012

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by Anonymous

Good DVD. Not great but it is solid Izzo. Nice to hear his philosophy on dead balls situations and why they are important. He sells his philosophy very well with some stats and evidence from his past.
I've saw better DVD's from him that have great drills and more of his grit and toughness philosophy. But, if you are looking for some good BLOB's and SLOB's and jump ball plays its a good buy.

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson May 30, 2012

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by Anonymous

if you like to have a lot of set plays out of a dead ball, this is the video you are looking for

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson April 10, 2012

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by JimRobinson496

Good video - love his attention to detail in special
situations and his philosophy of the game.

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson May 22, 2011

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by Anonymous

Solid video...my only warning - if you own Smorgasboard and a couple of his other offensive-minded videos, you have already seen the majority of these sets/plays. "Chips," "Whizzer," etc. Otherwise, it does provide a new way to view dead ball situations. For this reason, almost gave it a 4, but it's still a quality Izzo video.

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson May 8, 2011

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by Anonymous

It's Izzo being Izzo. I got some great stuff regarding OBU plays and set plays off of free throws. The best part of the video for me, was Izzo showing a series of OBU plays that could be run with different formations to start. I definitely got my money's worth from this DVD!

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson May 1, 2011

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by shannonpierce538

great video. he gives lots of ways to score from different situations.

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson March 23, 2011

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by BjörnHjalmarsson978

Im a big Izzo fan and have alot of him allready but this Dvd is great. This one is focusing on winning details and thats something for every coach, dosnt matter what level, to see.
Björn Hjalmarsson, Headcoach Solna Branten Sweden

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Tom Izzo: Winning Dead Ball Situationson February 14, 2011

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by pscsmith

Great DVD. I appreaciate Coach Izzo's knowledge of the game and his philosopy towards coaching the game. I'm going to order his fastbreak dvd today!
Coach Smith
Fundamentally Sound Sports, Inc

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